I don't hear this game mentioned often outside of places like this, so just to make sure it's out there, since it's an absolute goddamn masterpiece: Alundra, for the PSX.
Pretty much the best top-down Zelda game that's not a Zelda game. Highly, highly recommend it.
And while I'm at it, here's a random, overlooked action game that deserves way more attention: Rising Zan, also for PSX.
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Man, now I'm remembering tons and tons more - I'll limit myself to one more recommendation, since I don't want to flood this thread: Racing Lagoon, a street racing JRPG, also for the PSX.
Games like this are the reason people like me still consider the fifth console generation the most interesting. Genuinely weird ideas realized with an actual budget (for the time). Great stuff.
(Great Youtube channel btw - plenty of other recommendations on there as well)
saw the edit, throwing more games in
on GBA there's the summon night: swordcraft story series, really interesting action RPGs where random encounters are sidescrolling real-time fights and your RPG progression is focused around crafting new weapons. On SNES I'm not sure if this is exactly a hidden gem or not, but Umihara Kawase is one of my favorite platformers ever made. On game boy, there's trip world, really nice little platformer by sunsoft. If we're not limited to consoles, then I've also gotta plug Glove On Fight 2: Gleam of Force, old indie PC fighting game that's abandonware
Blood Will Tell on PS2, they should have use Dororo as a title instead.
If you know the manga then you know the drill, you play as Hyakkimaru, your job is to hunt down demons to retrieve your human body. I love how they incorporated this into gameplay, you start off playing in monochrome until you retrieve your eyes, then slowly learn new abilities as you regain your body, like double jump from the legs, or sensing enemies with your nose.
Oh and you might notice that Amemiya Keita is part of the design team, mostly known directing dark and grittier Tokusatsu shows before this, he is also the character designer for Onimusha 2 and 3. His handiwork and style really stand out in this game, I mean you can add almost all of the demons here to Garo tv series and no one's gonna notice.
x360 was such an amazing console, truly ps3's rival back there, good times
lets see, some list of games
- tenchu z
- lost odyssey
- lost planet 1
- the last remnant
- enslaved: odyssey to the west
- singularity
- asura's wrath
- vampire rain
- bullet witch
- conan
- beowulf
- onechanbara samurai squad
- turok 2008
- naruto: broken bond
- the jason bourne game
- fracture
- the matt hazard game
- ninja blade
- infinite undiscovery
- eternal sonata
- blue dragon
- magna carta 2
- kameo
- the captain america game
From the Xbox 360 games I've played...
• Senko no Ronde
• Shadow Complex
• Enchanted Arms
• Splatterhouse (2010)
• Dante's Inferno
• The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
• Enchanted Arms
• Bullet Witch
• Sonic the Fighters
• Hard Corps: Uprising
• Bullet Witch
• Protect Me Knight
• Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
• Shoot 1UP, Explosionade, Game Type, and Weapons of Choice
• Parasitus: Ninja Zero
• Trouble Witches NEO!
• Strania: The Stella Machina
• ECHATOS, Judgment Silversword, and Cardinal Sins
• Ginga Force
• Oneechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
• Beat Hazard and Beat Hazard Ultra
• Infinity Danger
• Renegade Ops
• Bleed
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
• El Shadai: Ascension of the Metatron
• NiGHTS into Dreams...
• OutLand
• Proxy Blade Zero
• Sword of Rapier (I know, the game's title is really dumb)
Other non-Xbox 360 hidden games I've discovered...
• Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
• Gundemonium, GundeadliGne, and Hitogata Happa
• Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity
• Gungrave and Gungrave G.O.R.E
• CULTIC
• God Hand
• Devil Daggers
• Metallic Child
• ETHER VAPOR and Astebreed
• Fairy Bloom and Fairy Bloom Freesia
• Momodora series
• YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin
• SUGURI, Acceleration of SUGURI, sora, and acceleration of SUGURI 2
• QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
• Flying Red Barrel ~Diary of a Little Aviator~
• Senko no Ronde 2
• Chantelise and Recettear
• Croixleur series
• Rabi Ribi
• A Robot Named Fight!
• DmC: Devil May Cry (outside of the Xbox 360/PS3 versions)
• Bleed 2
• Frogun
• Gravity Circuit
• Gurumin
• Vanguard Princess
• Metagal
• Metaloid: Origin
• Lethal Application, Lethal Crisis, and Lethal Crisis ProtoSphere
• Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
• Phantom Breaker: Omnia
• Rune
• The Disappearance of Gensokyo
From the Xbox 360 games I've played...
• Senko no Ronde
• Shadow Complex
• Enchanted Arms
• Splatterhouse (2010)
• Dante's Inferno
• The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
• Enchanted Arms
• Bullet Witch
• Sonic the Fighters
• Hard Corps: Uprising
• Bullet Witch
• Protect Me Knight
• Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
• Shoot 1UP, Explosionade, Game Type, and Weapons of Choice
• Parasitus: Ninja Zero
• Trouble Witches NEO!
• Strania: The Stella Machina
• ECHATOS, Judgment Silversword, and Cardinal Sins
• Ginga Force
• Oneechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
• Beat Hazard and Beat Hazard Ultra
• Infinity Danger
• Renegade Ops
• Bleed
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
• El Shadai: Ascension of the Metatron
• NiGHTS into Dreams...
• OutLand
• Proxy Blade Zero
• Sword of Rapier (I know, the game's title is really dumb)
Other non-Xbox 360 hidden games I've discovered...
• Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
• Gundemonium, GundeadliGne, and Hitogata Happa
• Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity
• Gungrave and Gungrave G.O.R.E
• CULTIC
• God Hand
• Devil Daggers
• Metallic Child
• ETHER VAPOR and Astebreed
• Fairy Bloom and Fairy Bloom Freesia
• Momodora series
• YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin
• SUGURI, Acceleration of SUGURI, sora, and acceleration of SUGURI 2
• QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
• Flying Red Barrel ~Diary of a Little Aviator~
• Senko no Ronde 2
• Chantelise and Recettear
• Croixleur series
• Rabi Ribi
• A Robot Named Fight!
• DmC: Devil May Cry (outside of the Xbox 360/PS3 versions)
• Bleed 2
• Frogun
• Gravity Circuit
• Gurumin
• Vanguard Princess
• Metagal
• Metaloid: Origin
• Lethal Application, Lethal Crisis, and Lethal Crisis ProtoSphere
• Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
• Phantom Breaker: Omnia
• Rune
• The Disappearance of Gensokyo
its one of those super jank games that is still a good time for the right crowd. like if someone told me it was a 3/10 i would 100% agree with them but follow up with saying that i had a lot of fun. i started to question if i was having fun in spite of the jank or because of it while playing it and im still not sure
To me (at the risk of sounding like a super weeb), a lot of Bullet Witch's problems came down to Atari not only butchering the game's Western release on Xbox 360 — from making your guns woefully weak to the point of the Shotgun being virtually useless, to making Western players pay money for the Concept Mission DLCs which were originally free in the Japanese version — they also hyped up the game to have new features and improvements like improved lighting, better framerate, or higher res textures or something along those lines that turned out to be lies in the end. My experience with Bullet Witch came from the 2018 PC port by XSEED which, while that port has some jank and porting issues of its own (that sadly Marvelous won't address since they abandoned it), the gameplay felt more enjoyable and each of the guns at least had more purpose than in the Western Xbox 360 version on top of being able to play it in higher framerates if your PC can handle it.
V2000
Azure Dreams
Radikal Bikers
Diver's Dream
Invasion From Beyond
Deep Freeze
Team Buddies
Gangway Monsters
Cyber Org
Hard Rock Cab
Lucifer Ring
Soukaigi
Punky Skunk
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force
The Bombing Islands
Project Gaiaray
The Unholy War
Eggs of Steel
Krazy Ivan
Dreams
Trapt
Spy Fiction
Heavenly Guardian
The Sword of Etheria
Air Ranger Rescue Helicopter
Vampire Panic
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Crimson Tears
Spectral vs. Generation
Innocent Life
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Ring of Red
Shinobido: Way of the Ninja
Dragon Blaze
Yanya Caballista City Skater
Ribbit King
The Nightmare of Druaga
Robot Alchemic Drive
Iridium Runners
ChainDive
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